From: owner-support-system-digest@smoe.org (support-system-digest) To: support-system-digest@smoe.org Subject: support-system-digest V6 #246 Reply-To: support-system@smoe.org Sender: owner-support-system-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-support-system-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk support-system-digest Friday, September 12 2003 Volume 06 : Number 246 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [support-system] Liz Phair Photos at VH1 [Al Madrid Subject: [support-system] Liz Phair Photos at VH1 Don't know if this has been posted but there are some pics (shot by Liz it looks like) on the VH1 web site that were taken during the blackout when Liz Phair and Jason Mraz were playing in NY. Mostly of Mraz, but looks like Liz took the pics, except of course the two that she is in. Check them out. http://www.vh1.com/sitewide/flipbooks/player/index.jhtml?flipbookid=1478113&flipsection=artists&fliptypeid=1115 Al __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 21:33:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Stephen Griffes Subject: [support-system] pitchfork pre-ejaculates pixies (no liz content) > The Pixies. Are back. Together. Music is saved. Lovers of rock, unite and > cheer. This is going to truly own. This is precisely why the guys at pitchfork are idiots. Pixies had their time. There's plenty of wonderful music out there right now, they're just too pretentious to hear it. And goddamnit why does every stupid indierockboy say that Pixies paved the way for altrock while totally denying (the almost-all-girl) Throwing Muses' influence?! Pitchfuck even goes as far to suggest that there'd be no TM without Pixies. Ridiculous. TM released their self-titled masterpiece (which I feel is one of the most important records in altrocknroll) before the Pixies even formed! Read any Pixies bio and you will see that Pixies were opening for TM and that is when Gary Smith first heard them, and that is how they got signed to the label that TM was on (4AD)... okay. sorry. rant. And pitchfork really is getting to be like the Enquirer of indie rock...(with just as much misogyny in there.) Always trying to dish out the scoop to indierock diehards before the record label even has it. According to this article that was up on Billboard.com yesterday, we don't have any new info that we didn't have a few months ago when rumors started surfacing about a pixies reunion... http://www.billboard.com/bb/daily/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1975061 A decade after a bitter breakup, seminal alternative rock act the Pixies may reunite next year. At deadline, rumors of a tour and a potential new studio album remain unconfirmed. The group's manager tells Billboard.com, "I have received an offer for the Pixies to perform in April. That said, over the past 10 years, I have received dozens of offers for the Pixies." A spokesperson for the group's former label, 4AD, had no comment on potential reunion plans. The group's last major tour came while supporting U2 on a number of U.S. dates on the 1992 Zoo TV trek. Goldenvoice Promotions head Paul Tollett tells Billboard.com he has tried to book the Pixies "every year" for the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio, Calif. "I still haven't made any movement," he reports. "[I'm] not sure if they are speaking to each other." The Pixies -- vocalist/guitarist Black Francis, vocalist/bassist Kim Deal, lead guitarist Joey Santiago and drummer David Lovering -- released four albums and an EP over the course of five years in the late '80s/early '90s, providing a blueprint for the alternative rock boom that dominated the latter decade. In 1993, two years after the release of the group's final album, "Trompe Le Monde" (4AD/Elektra), Francis (real name: Charles Thompson) sent a press release to the media announcing the breakup of the Pixies. He went on to forge a solo career, now nine albums strong, as Frank Black. Deal found post-Pixies success with the Breeders, whose 1994 album "Last Splash" (4AD/Elektra) peaked at No. 33 on The Billboard 200 in 1994 and has sold 978,000 copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan. Black has been incorporating Pixies songs into live performances with his band the Catholics with increasing regularity over the past few years. Songs like "Where Is My Mind?," "Mr. Grieves," "Crackity Jones," "Nimrod's Son," "Holiday Song" and "Gouge Away" have all surfaced in recent setlists, and a version of the latter recorded in April in Regina, Saskatchewan, appears on a new Frank Black & the Catholics EP, "Nadine," licensed this week by spinART exclusively to a number of independent U.S. retailers. In July, Black told London radio station XFM that he still fantasized about reuniting his old band. "I do dream about the Pixies reunion, I do have to say," he said. "It's like those schoolboy dreams when you don't do your homework and you don't study for the test, but I'm at the gig and we're hanging out, but it's an utter failure and I don't know the songs, and hardly anyone turns up for the gig and people walk out. That's what I'm afraid of, that it'd be a big, big failure." He added: "We might. We do get together and have private jams together, but not for public consumption." During the Pixies' career, the group never made a huge commercial dent (their top-selling album is 1989's "Doolitte" at 552,000 copies). But its impact on critics and fans was far reaching. A handful of collections of Pixies material have surfaced during the band's hiatus, including the 1997 Elektra double-CD set "Death to the Pixies," which featured favorites and live compilation discs. Last year, spinART Records released "Pixies," a collection of unreleased songs from the band's original 1987 demo tape. - -- Troy Carpenter and Jonathan Cohen, N.Y. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 21:20:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Kate Stewart Subject: Re: [support-system] pitchfork pre-ejaculates pixies Speaking of the Pixies, I recently heard Head On for the first time, and what do you know: "Makes you wanna feel Makes you wanna try Makes you wanna blow the stars from the sky" Anybody ever notice that? And has anyone compiled a list of songs she has "borrowed" from, especially on Girlysounds? Wild Thing, Johnny Cash's I Walk the Line, Cher's It's in My Kiss, I'm a little teapot, Chopsticks, Whipsmart. Doesn't flower kind of sound like part of Somewhere over the Rainbow? And I think the opening melody of I Know it's Not Easy is stolen from some '80s song, if you sped it up. Things to think about. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ------------------------------ End of support-system-digest V6 #246 ************************************